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Donald Trump, the unwanted Palm Beach mansion and the Russian fertilizer king

“It’s an odd story, but Palm Beach real estate can be kind of strange,” said Gary Pohrer, one of the island’s real estate agents. Although some real estate publications made much of the fact that the mansion was on the market for nearly two years before it sold, Digges, the real estate agent who sold it, wasn’t surprised. Except for one very visible landmark: a sprawling, rococo seaside mansion in Palm Beach that Trump himself liked to boast about as an example of his real-estate acumen. “He bought it strictly as an investment to flip,” said Carol Digges, the Palm Beach realestate agent who would eventually resell the house for Trump. That was a bland, if fairly accurate, summary of a wild and goofy tale of the Palm Beach real estate market involving tax fraud, Russian billionaires, lurid divorce court accusations and — at least in the opinion of some Palm Beach observers — the execrably vulgar taste of the super-rich.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took his young daughters to meet President Donald Trump, even though Trump has insulted both their mother and grandfather. Cruz called the president “warm & gracious” and said his daughter Catherine brought her kindergarten class’s stuffed giraffe to Wednesday’s dinner. But all of that is water under the bridge for Cruz, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the weeks before the election. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump threatened to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife, Heidi, before retweeting an unflattering photo of her. The president also floated a conspiracy theory that Cruz’s father, Rafael, was somehow involved in President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.